In Episode 023 of REDD’s Business and Technology Podcast, our hosts Jackson Barnes (Head of Business Development – REDD), Brad Ferris (CEO – REDD), Nigel Heyn (Founder – REDD), interview Darren Hopkins who is the Cyber Partner at McGrathNicol with over 30 years protecting and responding to cyber threats throughout Australia.   We gain valuable insights […]

In Episode 018 of REDD’s Business and Technology Podcast, our hosts Jackson Barnes (Head of Business Development – REDD) and Brad Ferris (CEO – REDD) interview former head of Security at Swyftx – Chris Polkinghorne. Chris has decades of experience helping businesses protect themselves from cyber threats. We discuss his achievements and lessons learnt from […]

In Episode 017 of REDD’s Business and Technology Podcast, our hosts Jackson Barnes (Head of Business Development – REDD) and Brad Ferris (CEO – REDD) interview Ben Greenup (Director of Technology, Brisbane Boys’ College). Ben has over a decade of experience in managing & supporting complex school IT environments.   We discuss ChatGPT and other AI […]

In Episode 016 of REDD’s Business and Technology Podcast, our hosts Jackson Barnes (Head of Business Development – REDD), and Brad Ferris (CEO – REDD) interview Lane Roush (Global Senior Vice President of Global Sales Engineering for Arctic Wolf) & Steve Craig (Chief Sales Officer – Arctic Wolf). Arctic Wolf is a global security operations giant […]

This month (October 2022) The Australian Institute of Company Directors published “Cyber Security Governance Principles for Directors (link here). REDD’s duty of care is to bring this to the attention to all Directors and Senior Managers to review this document and consider the principles in the context of your business. The following principles have been […]

  In Episode 005 of REDD’s Business and Technology Podcast our hosts Jackson Barnes (BDM – REDD) and Brad Ferris (COO – REDD) interview Mat Cantarella, CIO at FKG Group, and discuss his first 100 days as CIO at FKG Group. Recorded Friday October 7, 2022.   If you would like to discuss any of the […]

In this episode our hosts Jackson Barnes (BDM – REDD) and Brad Ferris (COO – REDD) interview Rob Brown (Director Cyber & Forensics at McGrathNicol) to discuss Cyber Security in 2022. Particularly we discuss the recent Optus and Uber hacks, Essential 8, Cyber Insurance, Cyber Awareness training and the key risks facing SMBs in Queensland. […]

Many small businesses make the mistake of skipping policies. They feel that things don’t need to be so formal. They’ll just tell staff what’s expected when it comes up and think that’s good enough. But this way of thinking can cause issues for small and mid-sized business owners. Employees aren’t mind readers. Things that you […]